KidsHappen Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 (edited) I got a hijack virus. We tried just about everything out there to remove it, all of which failed. I was able to continue using it in safe mode but now it has reached a point where it won't even boot up. I currently have two technicians working on it who are going to try to reformat and restore the original system but it is not looking good. We managed to save all of my documents, emails and money files to a thumb drive but I will still lose a lot of info and I have to buy a new computer. I had Windows XP which I really liked. I am currently using my dd's computer which has Windows 7 on it which I don't like at all. I am generally not very fond of change but when I get a new computer it will have Windows 7 on it. Oh and I really can't afford to buy a new computer right now. I am seriously bummed about it. Edited September 13, 2010 by KidsHappen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughCollie Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 This happened to us a few months ago. It is very upsetting that some sociopath is out there doing this to people. I'm sorry to hear that this happened to you. RC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlebug42 Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 I sympathize with you. This has happened to me twice this year and my dd's computer is currently down with a virus. The hard drive also crashed in my old laptop. It has not been a good year for computers. :grouphug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momof3sofar Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 Oh I am so sorry you were unable to fix it. I feel very lucky now to have fixed mine (both laptop and desktop were caught up in that nasty virus) Maybe you'll get lucky and the computer "geeks" (and I mean that in a loving way) will come up with some fix that will enable you to keep it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckens Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 :grouphug: Did your computer have a name? How shall we remember him/her? --Duckens a nerd who names her computers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pippen Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 I sincerely feel your pain. Our computer died suddenly right after the hot water heater, and two weeks before the transmission on our van went out. I held up bravely through it all, and then our bunny died unexpectedly last week and I was a serious mess. Thankfully the hard drive wasn't impacted because I hadn't done a back up in a long time and hadn't done well in backing up or printing off pictures at all. If that sounds like anyone reading this, get that back up done ASAP because I would have been sick had we lost it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted September 13, 2010 Author Share Posted September 13, 2010 :grouphug: Did your computer have a name? How shall we remember him/her? --Duckens a nerd who names her computers Yep, it was a hijack virus. If you Google this you will find . . .wait for it . . . a lot of listings for the google hijack virus. There are also a lot of entries for the facebook hijack virus. There are a couple of others but as far as I can tell they are all the same virus. The feature that usually alerts you to the problem is that when you do a search you either get results that have nothing to do with what you were searching for or you get the right hits but when you click on any of the links, it redirects you to some other random site. It is a pretty bad virus as it over-rides your virus protection, prevents you from even going to the Malwarebytes site, refuses to let you download any other anti-virus software and basically has been written in such a way that it prevents you from in any way trying remove it or even reformat you computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RegGuheert Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 Sounds bad. I'm sorry you have had to deal with this. I would recommend booting from a Linux LiveCD such as Ubuntu and then reformat (repartition, whatever) the C: drive from within Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted September 13, 2010 Author Share Posted September 13, 2010 Sounds bad. I'm sorry you have had to deal with this. I would recommend booting from a Linux LiveCD such as Ubuntu and then reformat (repartition, whatever) the C: drive from within Linux. I think that they are going to do something like this. This is the part of the conversation that I got: flash drive -blah, blah, blah, BIOS - blah, blah, blah, Linux, blah, blah, blah, Ubuntu - blah, blah blah, reformat. :001_huh: It all Greek to me but they sound like they know what they are doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BMW Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 I just love your computer lingo!!!! Do any of you have a favorite protection/line of defense to avoid these problems?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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